We commissioned UK environmental investigators DeSmog to conduct research into the boards of Australia’s big four banks and their ties to fossil fuel companies.

In late 2020, Energy Minister Angus Taylor visited Empire Energy’s fracking site in the Northern Territory. He wasn’t the Minister responsible for the issue so we decided to take a closer look at his connections to the company. 

In March 2020, the Government appointed a so-called ‘Covid Commission’ that was stacked with fossil fuel company executives and gas “kingmakers” whose vision for Australia was for more pipelines and fracking wells.

We set about investigating who was behind these proposals and set to benefit from the Government building a new gas-fired power station in the Hunter.

We found Government data on the amount of potential gas in each of these five basins and used it to calculate just how much of a climate risk they pose.

We set out to find out the extent to which the gas industry in WA holds influence over the WA Government, and the way that is impacting on WA’s approach to climate change.

From the first days of the global COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that the fossil fuel lobby was running a concerted campaign to exploit the global health crisis to further its agenda.